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Bringing Anthropological Concepts to Life in a Virtual Peer Exchange

Teaching Anthropology

MARCH 7, 2024

In this instance, the online platform Flip enabled cross-institutional, cross-border student interactions to discuss cultural similarities and differences— core subject matter of anthropology. Seventy undergraduate Anthropology students at The University of the West Indies (UWI) St.

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Call For Papers: Trauma Informed Anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching? This Teaching Anthropology Special Issue will explore approaches to trauma-informed anthropology and to consider key emerging discussions around trauma-informed approaches more broadly.

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Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. Three challenges in teaching anthropology. Teaching Anthropology 1 (2), pp.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iv] Anthropological attention to Peasant study: Although Robert Redfield’s fieldwork in Mexico as early as 1926 is considered to be the first attempt to see peasant as an analytical category, the study of peasant or the use of the term peasant is quite old. Nash (1966), and the geographer Franklin (1969).

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Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class

Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In a 1934 lecture on techniques of the body, for example, Marcel Mauss argued that studies of movement should attend concomitantly to biological, sociological and psychological facets. Anthropologists and others have long been drawn to the pragmatics and theoretics of hygiene.

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Luther Gerlach

Anthropology News

APRIL 17, 2024

He then served in the US Army in for two years (1952–54) and as a government researcher in Germany before earning a PhD in cultural anthropology in 1961 from the University of London, with certificates in African and Islamic law and Swahili at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in 1958.

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Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

That was apparent in January when the Board of Governors for Florida’s state university system, in approving regulations for the new anti-DEI law, also removed sociology from the list of courses that meet general education requirements. (On On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”)

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Learn more about: “Canadian Indian Residential Schools Data Collection Project”

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Kirsten Lindbloom, University of Wisconsin – River Falls Professor Kirsten Lindbloom (she/her/hers) is a faculty member in the sociology, criminology and anthropology department at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. in sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Professor Lindbloom completed her M.A.

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Urban Ecology

Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 17, 2021

It was an approach to the study of cities, social change, and urban life, these theories were introduced into sociology by the Chicago School to explain the competition between social groups for scarce resources such as land. The competition between groups was assumed to increase efficiency and promote a greater division of labor.

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Reimagining Neanderthals: Ludovic Slimak's Insights into Human Evolution and Coexistence

Anthropology.net

AUGUST 6, 2024

We have fragmented human knowledge into various disciplines—anthropology, psychology, sociology—but none of these fragments fully encompass what it means to be human.” Slimak asserts. "We

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 90, no. Redfield, Robert 1956 Peasant Society and Culture: An Anthropological Approach to Civilization. Mendelson 1956): 1. Natural (biology, chemistry, physics) 3. of Chicago Press.

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What Does Blended Learning Look Like in an AP Class?

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

She is a veteran social studies teacher who has taught Sociology, US History, World History, Anthropology, and Psychology. I would like to thank Catlin for creating the materials to help me survive and thrive as a blended teacher and for the opportunity to share my experiences with you.

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How Students Use Unofficial Online Backchannels for Classes

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But students can be reluctant to use these sanctioned channels, or to show up in person for office hours, says Megan McNamara, a continuing lecturer in sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She says she used a Discord server as a student recently, in an online course she took at the campus. “I

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Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

APRIL 26, 2024

Castañeda Pérez is an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of law, sociology and political science. Estefania Castañeda Pérez is a postdoctoral fellow at the Penn Migration Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, and received her Ph.D.

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What is Learning Sciences and Why Does It Matter?

Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

Sciences of learning recognizes that many sciences inform our understanding of how people learn, such as neuroscience, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and more. These terms represent distinct research traditions and inform our understanding in different and complementary ways.

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Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans. But a specific degree program to study veterans is being launched this fall at Saint Leo University in central Florida.

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The skull maps that quantified racism

Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

His book, The Races of Europe (1899), is a prime example of this pseudoscientific approach to anthropology, but it was relatively non-controversial at the time. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. The maps shown here are all the work of William Z.

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Study: The Indo-European language family was born south of the Caucasus

Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

This is a huge step forward from the mutually exclusive, previous scenarios, towards a more plausible model that integrates archaeological, anthropological, and genetic findings.” Note the non-Indo-European language islands in Europe, representing Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, and Basque. Strange Maps #1220 Got a strange map?

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Urban Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Definition: Urban Anthropology examines the social organization of the city, looking at the kinds of social relationship and pattern of social life unique to cities and comparing their different cultural and historical contexts. Roberts 1978).

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Some universities’ response to budget woes: Making faculty teach more courses

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Cynthia Stretch and John O’Connor, who teach English and sociology, respectively, at different campuses in the Connecticut State University System, are among faculty protesting a proposal to increase their teaching loads from four courses a semester to five. There’s a fundamental disrespect for these students.”.

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From inner space to outer space, schools try new ways to help students explore

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Inside the grand, art deco-influenced building, students study rhetoric and sociology, Antigone and anthropology. Classes run from 9 a.m.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

A wide range of departments including engineering, anthropology, classics, history, English, sociology and philosophy participate in its teaching. It is an interdisciplinary course that uses multiple perspectives to understand materials innovation.

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Ivy League degree: Now what?

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

I wish I’d had somebody keeping it really real about this transition,” says Victoria Shantrell Asbury, a sociology graduate student at Harvard who moderated the November forum and was a low-income first gen undergraduate at Stanford University. Related: Column: New research offers home to first-generation college grads. “I

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Cultural Dimensions of health - Introduction

Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e, medical anthropology has engage in both basic research into health and healing systems and applied research aimed at the improvement of therapeutic care in clinical settings or community public health programs in prevention and disease control.

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Cooking in the “Melting Pot” of Delhi

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

But that knowledge is now limited to marginalized groups, in many cases, so I write here to capture some of those nuances, which I believe hold the potential for deeper anthropological and sociological exploration of the everyday, intersectional impact of climate change on marginalized groups in urban India.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

These have included anthropology, philosophy, languages, art, theater, music and women’s and African American studies. Edinboro University, a public institution in Pennsylvania, cut 31 degree programs and concentrations in 2018, including music.

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DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY Decentralisation is the process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people and/or citizen. It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics.

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Teaching social studies in a polarized world

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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The Aeroroutes of Stuttgart

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Route—a space created from movement—is one of four types of spatial figure in sociology of space (as proposed by Martina Löw and Hubert Knoblauch ). The post The Aeroroutes of Stuttgart appeared first on Anthropology News. Special thanks to Christopher Heidecke, who has edited the video for this article.

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Bringing Anthropological Concepts to Life in a Virtual Peer Exchange

Call For Papers: Trauma Informed Anthropology

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Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology

Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class

Luther Gerlach

Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

Learn more about: “Canadian Indian Residential Schools Data Collection Project”

Urban Ecology

Reimagining Neanderthals: Ludovic Slimak's Insights into Human Evolution and Coexistence

Worldview

What Does Blended Learning Look Like in an AP Class?

How Students Use Unofficial Online Backchannels for Classes

Navigating the Challenges & Considerations of Fieldwork: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop

What is Learning Sciences and Why Does It Matter?

Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The skull maps that quantified racism

Study: The Indo-European language family was born south of the Caucasus

Urban Anthropology

Some universities’ response to budget woes: Making faculty teach more courses

From inner space to outer space, schools try new ways to help students explore

Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Ivy League degree: Now what?

Cultural Dimensions of health - Introduction

Cooking in the “Melting Pot” of Delhi

Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY

Teaching social studies in a polarized world

The Aeroroutes of Stuttgart

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